Darren Davis and Jason Schultz are, respectively, the president and executive vice president for business development of Bluewater Productions, a Washington state-based comic book company, and in 2009, they began giving politicians starring roles in their illustrated stories.

Defying that stereotype, Bluewater produced comic books starring Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Bluewater used those books to launch its “Female Force” series focused on empowering women.

“Back during the last election, we noticed how unfair Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton were being treated in the media. People were commenting more on their clothes than their actual résumés,” Davis said.

More than 25,000 copies of both Clinton and Palin’s comic books were sold, and Davis and Schultz haven’t looked back since, going on to produce comic books on political figures including Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Bill O’Reilly, Caroline Kennedy, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger and George W. Bush. Comic books featuring Jon Stewart and Gen. David Petraeus are currently in the pipeline, and you can expect some cartoon versions of the 2012 presidential hopefuls to hit the shelves in the near future, too.

POLITICO stopped by Bluewater Production’s headquarters — a quiet home in Vancouver, Wash. — for a video tour and interview, which can be viewed at www.politico.com.

Bluewater has gone to great lengths to make sure its books are free of any bias, which has earned the company fans on both sides of the aisle. Bill Clinton’s office reached out for copies of the Hillary book when it came out, and Davis says that Rush Limbaugh is interested in having Bluewater do something on him. Signed copies of their Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Walters comic books hang in the headquarters. Davis said they now field pitches from politicians eager for their own comic book debuts.

Though the story lines are political, there’s no underlying messaging coming from the company, Bluewater insists.

“We don’t want to put our agendas into it because we don’t have an agenda,” Davis said. “That’s very important for this series, so we’ll always pick people from both sides of the fence.”

Well, they do have one agenda: To make money in an industry that has seen better days. And, to their good fortune, political comic books have been a surprising success (the comics have a newsstand price of about $4).

Bluewater’s Michelle Obama comic book has been its bestseller (130,000 copies and counting). “She competes with Justin Bieber just a little bit,” Davis said. “They’re neck and neck.” And the 2012 roster shows some promise.

“Mitt Romney has a really long story and a good story that would actually transfer well into a comic book,” Davis said. “And I also think Michele Bachmann … she’s kind of on the lines of where a Sarah Palin is.”

But Bluewater won’t do simply anything for a buck.

“We’re not going to do an Anthony Weiner story,” Davis said. “We’re not into the whole sensationalism of doing stuff.”